Charles MacGregor

Charles MacGregor (12 August 1840-5 February 1887) was a Major-General of the British Army, Quartermaster-General of the British Indian Army of British Raj, and the founder of the Intelligence Bureau of India in 1885. MacGregor was a veteran of the Sepoy Rebellion, Bhutan War, 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia, and Second Anglo-Afghan War.

Biography
Charles MacGregor was born on 12 August 1840 in Agra, India to an officer in the Bengal Artillery of the British Indian Army, and he was educated at Marlborough College before returning to British Raj and serving in the Battle of Lucknow during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857. MacGregor served in the Bhutan War of 1864-1865 as Deputy Quartermaster General and then in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia at the Battle of Magdala. During the Second Anglo-Afghan War, MacGregor served as Frederick Roberts' Chief-of-Staff, and he remained in this post until 1885. That year, he founded what is now the Indian Intelligence Bureau to monitor the Russian Empire's troop deployments in Afghanistan, and he died two years later with the rank of a Major-General.